Gennette Nicole Cordova, who received the obscene tweet from Rep. Weiner's Twitter account.

A college student who received an obscene photo from Rep. Anthony Weiner's Twitter account says she's never met the married Queens politico - and backed his contention they're both victims of online pranksters.

She also issued a lengthy statement, complaining about how she's been characterized on blogs and other web sites.

"I have seen myself labeled as the 'Femme Fatale of Weinergate,' 'Anthony Weiner's 21-year-old coed mistress' and 'the self-proclaimed girlfriend of Anthony Weiner.' ... All of this is so outlandish that I don't know whether to be pissed off or amused, quite frankly," she wrote.

The online drama began Friday when a lewd photo appeared in Weiner's Twitter stream addressed to Cordova but visible to all 40,000 of his Twitter followers.

The photo was a crotch shot of a man in form-fitting briefs that left little to the imagination.

It was quickly deleted and Weiner, who was in the middle of Twittering about hockey, said he'd been hacked.

"More Weiner Jokes for all my guests," he Tweeted.

Weiner stepped out on Sunday with his wife Huma Abedin amid controversy over a picture posted from his Twitter account. (Andrew Savulich/News)

Sunday, Weiner's spokesman Dave Arnold said: "This is intended to be a distraction, and we're not going to let it become one. Anthony's accounts were obviously hacked. He doesn't know the person named by the hacker, and we will be consulting on what steps to take next."

Outside his Forest Hills home, Weiner, declined further comment as he went for a walk with his wife, Huma Abedin, a former top Senate aide to Hillary Clinton. It was unclear whether he or his staff contacted authorities.

Some right-wing bloggers insist it must be proof that Weiner was having an affair with Cordova, who had once jokingly Tweeted: "I wonder what my boyfriend @RepWeiner is up to."

Weiner, a darling of liberal Democrats, has become a big target for conservative voices.

"Contrary to the impression that I apparently gave from my tweet, I am not his girlfriend," Cordova wrote in her statement to the News. "Nor am I the wife, girlfriend or mistress of Barack Obama, Ray Allen or Cristiano Ronaldo, despite the fact that I have made similar assertions about them via Twitter."

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Cordova said she has been harassed for weeks online after she started following Weiner on Twitter and the congressman added her to the list of about 200 people he follows.

Her harrasser "started posting about me, saying, 'Oh, the congressman is following school girls,' tweeting it over and over. It was very annoying," Cordova told the Daily News. When the crotch shot appeared online, she said the same Twitter user was the first to comment on it.

"Since I had dealt with this person and his cohorts before, I assumed that the tweet and the picture were their latest attempts at defaming the congressman and harassing his supporters," she said. "Annoyed, I responded with something along the lines of 'are you f***ing kidding me?' and 'I've never seen this. You people are sick,'" she said.

Cordova said she blocked her accounts and thought that would be the end of it. But taking down her information only fanned the flames. Cordova said she's had the worst weekend of her life.

"I've watched in sheer disbelief as my name, age, location, links to any social networking site I've ever used, my old phone numbers and pictures have been passed along from stranger to stranger.

"My friends have received phone calls from people claiming to be old friends of mine, attempting to obtain my contact information," she said.

"I also do not have a clear understanding as to how or why exactly I am involved in this fiasco," she wrote.

"I do know that my life has been seriously impacted by speculation and faulty allegations. My reputation has been called into question by those who lack the character to report the facts."